WYD Montreal 2024
“Rejoicing in hope”
(cf. Rom 12:12)
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Program
16 NOV 2024 –– Teens Festival
9:30AM-5PM
Location TBC
The Teen Festival is a lively and joyful experience that invites teens, ages 13-17, to discover or renew their relationship with Christ as well as build relationships with other young people in a safe and holy environment designed for them.
22 NOV 2024 –– VIVA!
6pm-8pm: VIVA! – REUNION OF YOUTH MINISTERS
PARISH HALL OF THE CATHEDRAL : 1110 rue Mansfield (Métro Bonaventure)
Registration required for the gathering from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Come spend time with us at the parish hall of the Cathedral from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. This is an opportunity to bring together youth ministers, young adult leaders. We’re here to reunite, share a meal (registration required), exchange stories, and celebrate the fruits of our summer pastoral activities.
Then, at 8:00 PM, we will proceed to the Cathedral for the Christ the King vigil (open to all, no registration required).
22 NOV 2024 –– VIVA!
8pm: VIVA! – CHRIST THE KING VIGIL
MARY QUEEN OF THE WORLD CATHEDRAL (Métro Bonaventure)
Open to all, no registration required
The Archbishop invites you to a Thanksgiving celebration through an evening of adoration, music, prayer, and witness, led by young people, for young people. On this special occasion, Youth Ministers and WYD Lisbon Pilgrims will be blessed and commissioned by our Archbishop.
24 NOV 2024 ––Mass of Christ the King
In local parishes
It is important for young people to belong to and be involved in a community. Therefore, the concluding Mass of WYD Montréal is celebrated in the parishes.
Within the liturgy, parishes are encouraged to involve young people, to offer up their intentions and to give them a special blessing. Beyond the liturgy, parishes are encouraged to creatively celebrate the young people in their community.
For young people who are unaffiliated, this Sunday Mass may allow them to find a parish that they can call home.
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Messages
Pope Francis’
Message
WYD 2023
Archbishop Lepine’s Letter
WYD 2023
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The Basics
A prophetic initiative by St. John Paul II
Initiated by Saint John Paul II in 1984, World Youth Days (WYD) continue to “play an important part in the lives of many young people, since they offer a living experience of faith and communion that can help them meet life’s great challenges and responsibly take their place in society and in the Church”.
An international and local celebration
World Youth Days are celebrated internationally every few years. Locally, within dioceses and eparchies, they are celebrated yearly on the Feast of Christ the King in November.
In Montréal
WYD Montréal (WYD MTL) is an annual week-long diocesan celebration for the Archdiocese of Montreal that culminates at the Solemnity of Christ the King in late November.
Objectives
I. Create an experience where young people can encounter Christ
II. Empower young people to be protagonists
“I imagined the World Youth Days as a powerful moment in which the young people of the world could meet Christ, who is eternally young, and could learn from him how to be bearers of the Gospel to other young people.”
– St. John Paul II, WYD Toronto 2002